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Mass Effect Andromeda won’t be receiving any new single-player content or patches. That’s the news from BioWare, which announced that the only updates from this point forward would be for the multiplayer version of the game.

Mass Effect Andromeda was meant to catapult BioWare’s signature sci-fi franchise to new heights of exploration and adventure. Instead, it hit the market with the grace of a dead manatee. So what went wrong?

The EFF and ESA have filed opposing claims with the Library of Congress over the future of multiplayer gaming support. The EFF wants players to have the right to support games after the online servers go dark. The ESA doesn’t.

EA, in one fell swoop, has changed the entire landscape of gaming and made it much more feasible to buy an Xbox One instead of a PS4. Starting today, beta testers will be able to subscribe to EA Access ($5 per month or $30 annually), giving them unlimited access to some of EA’s biggest games Considering these top-tier games usually cost $70 each, gaining access to all (or most) of EA’s games for just $30 per year is an incredibly good deal — so good that, if you’re into EA games, the Xbox One actually starts to make a lot more sense than the PS4. This is crazy, crazy stuff from EA — really, what is the company thinking?